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<v The Beaufort Republican. > AN INDEPENDENT FAMILY NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, LITERATURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. OUR MOTTO IS?TRUTH WITHOUT FEAR. - VOL. III. NO. 39. BEAUFORT, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1873," {'.I&'SkVSK: NEW SPUING GOODS. ' Jas. C. BAILS ? & BRO., P ASK TOUR ATTENfoU?wln? DESIRABLE goods ofrereo by them (or nJi ENGLISH A^fl AMERICAS FLOOR OIL CLOTHS. Hi feet wide, end of the beet quality of roods manufactured. Do yen went e reel good On Cloth 7 If so, come now end get the eery besL OU Clothe cut any size end laid promptly. A full line of cheep FLOOR OIL CLOTHS, from SOc.* yard up. Table clothe all widths end colors. CARPETS. Brussels, three-ply end ingrain Carpets of new designs. A full stock of low-prloed carpets from, 30o. a yard up. Carpets measured for, made end laid with dispatch. LACE CURTAINS. French Tambourd Lace, " Exquisites." Nottingham Lace, " Beautiful." Tamboured Muslin, durable and cheap, from $2.50 a pair and upwards. CORNICES AND BANDS. Rosewood and Gilt, Plain Gilt, Walnut and GUt Cornioes, with or without centres. Curtain Bands, Pins and Loops. Cornices cut and made to fit windows and put up. WINDOW SHADES. 1,000 Window Shade* in all the new tinta of color. Beautiful Gold Band Shade*, $1.60, with all trimming*. Beautiful 8hades 20c. each. Store Window Shade* any color and any size. Window Shade* squared and put up promptly. Walnut and painted wood Shade*. RUGS AND DOOR MATS. New and beautiful Rug*. Door Mat*, from 50c. up to the best English Cocoa, that wear three year*. 100 sets Table Hats, assorted. . MATTINGS. New Matting, Plain and Fancy, In all the different . width* made. Matting* laid with dispatch. WALL PAPERS AND BORDERS. 3,000 Roll* Wall Paper* and Borders In new patterns, in gold, panels, hall, oaks, marbles, chintzes, Ac., in every variety of colors?beautiful, good and cheap. Paper hung If desired. HA1H tLVl'MS In all widths required tor Upholstering. Buttons, Gimps sod Ticks for time. , CURTAIN DAMASKS. , Plain snd Striped French Terry* for Curtains anii Upholstering purposes. Gimp?, Fringe, Tiseels, Loops end Buttons. Moreens snd Table Damasks. *' Curtains and Lambre quins made and put up. PIANO AND TABLE COVERS. English Embroidered-Cloth and Piano Table Cover*. Embossed Felt Piano and Table Covers. Plain and gold band Flocked Piano Cover*. German Fringed Table Covers. CRUMB CLOTHS AND DRUGGETS. New patterns in any size or width wanted. To aQ of which we ask your attention. All work dope well and in season, by James 6. Bailie & Brothers, AUGUSTA, GA. apl-17-ly. H. M. Stuart, M. D., Corner of Bay and Eighth Streets, Beaufort, S. C. D BALES IX DRUGS AND CHEMICALS, FAMIL Y MEDICINES, 0 FANCY AND TOILET ARTICLES, ST A TI ONER Y, PERF UMER Y, BRUSHES, Ac., Ac., Ac. Together with man v other articles too numerous to mention. All of wiiichwill be sold at the lowest price for cash. Physicians prescriptions carefully PIERCE L. WIGGIN, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW. j* Solicitor Second Circuit. ( Beaufort, S. C. BepM-ly. JERRY SAVAGE & CO., Wheelwrights & Carpenters. Carte, Wagons and Carriages repaired in the beat manner at low prices. All kinds of jobbing promptly attended to. MAGNOLIA St., BEAUFORT, S. C. J. K. Goethe, M. D. Dr. Ooethe offers his professional services to the public, lie may be found at his residence, Game Hill, near Vnrnsrille, , Beaufort Co., S. O. jan.l-ly. _ , A. S. HITCHCOCK, ! ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW, BOUNTY, PENSION AND CLAIM AGENT. BEAUFORT, 8. C. Dec.l-yr. r YEMASSEE Eating Saloon, AT THE P. P. A 8. & C. R. R. JUNCTION The traveling public will here find good meals <n the urr. val of trains. Also accommodations for m?n ad beast, near the depot. i YEMASSEE, S.' C. Nov.Jl-ly. W. H. CALVERT, PRACTICAL Tin, Sheet-Iron, Copper & Zinc Worker. DEALER IN Japanned and Stamped Tin Ware*. Constantly on baud, Cooking, Parlor and Box Stoves. TKRM8 CASH. Thankful for past favors, and hoping by strict attention to business in the future to merit your kind favor. W. H. CALVERT, Bay St, between 8th and 9th Sts., BEAUFORT, S. C. ApLVly. CHARLESTON HOTEL, .CHARLESTON, S. C. rach?-ly E. H. JACK8QN. Redeem Your Lands. The Acta of Congress and the Regulations of the Treasury Department in regard to the Redemption sf Lands now in the pnesssslon of the United States by reason of the Direct Tax Commissi oners sales ears , . be had at this office. Prise ten seats. By null tltseaosats. PAUL BRODIE, A RCHITECT, B?AJFO*r,S.C Drawings of Models prepared for Patent Office. Studies for special purposes, made at abort notice. Box 31, P. O. decl-ly William Gurney, COTTON FACTOR AXD Commission Merchant, NO. 102 EAST BAY . I AMD NORTH ATLANTIC WHARF, CHARLESTON, S. C. Particular attention given to the sale of and shipment of 8ea Island and Upland Cotton. LibetrJ advances made on consignments. dec7-ly JOHN BRODIE, Contractor & House Builder, Jobbing Punctually Attended To. OFFICES Corner Bay and Ninth Street, BEAUFORT, S. C. decl-tf PORT ROYA-ts SAW & PLANING MILL, Beaufort, S. C. ____ t D. C. WILSON & CO., MlNuraoTCBExa or and dkalebs in Yellow Pine Tiler anil Inmler, AMD CYPRESS SHINGLES, ALSO, Builders & Contractors. Plaster Lathes, ALL KIXDS Or JOB SAWING Promptly Done. Flooring and Ceiling Boards Always J on Hand. . n. . .. < Order* for Lumber ana Timber dj ine cargo . promptly filled. Terms Cash. D. C. WILSON & CO. ] nov38-ly THE BEAUFORT H0R0L0GIST! ' P. M. WHITMAN, ! Watchmaker and Engraver, i Mayo's Building, Bay Street. Will give his personal attention to the repairing of , WATCHES, CLOCKS and JEWELRY. Ornamental . and plain Engraving done at short notice. ' Gentlemen having fine Watches can test them at this establishment by one of HOWARD k CO.'8 . 1800 REOULATOR8. 1 Having added to my stock one of J. BUSS k CO.'S fine Transit Instruments, I am now prepared to furnish Beaufort time to the fraction of a second. Alfred Williams, TRIAL JUSTICE,; Crofut's Building, | BAY STREET, BEAUFORT, S. C. \ N. B.?Court will be held every Friday at Brick i Church, St. Helena Island. mchM-ly j A. MARK. ! BOOTMAKER, \ Bay Street, Beaufort. S. C. 1 Having opened a shop upon Bay Street, I am prepared to do Ant-class work. mch2Q-ly A.MARK. ( PURE WATER ; Guaranteed by the use of the 1 AMERICAN DRIVEN WELL, i t Now being put down in this County. They are ( Olieap and Durable, ' And give universal satisfaction. Pure Water can be I introduced into any house by the AMERICAN < DRIVEN WELL lu a few hours. Apply to 1 M. L. MAINE, Sea Island Hotel, or to ! E. G. NICHOLS, Permanent Agent. febr-dm S. MAYO, BAY STREET, BEAUFORT, S. C., 1 HARDWARE, i i Liquors, Segars and Tobacco, | Net Yams, Fish Lines A Cordage, 1 y R-lnss "Paints and Oils. * White Lead and Turpentine. Sjiecial attention given to mixing Paint*, and 1 Glaya cut to order of any wire. febll ~M. POLLITZER, | Cotton Factor and ] Commission Merchant, { BEAUFORT, S. C. aepU 1 The Savannah independent, \ A FAMILY NEWSPAPER, | Eatabliahed on the chxap cash plan, at the low rate of only ' ONE DOLLAR A YEAR; Addregg, 1 INDEPENDENT, p. o. Box 865. SaTumah, G*. } W. a. CAPERS, Upholsterer and Repairer, i Old Furniture pot la good order, Picture Frame* 1 made. Mattraaaee atnffed at the ahorteet notice. Corner Bay and Hlnth Mtraate. 1 fehUdy 1 A Wedding Gift. All that I have this day is thine, A heart whose faith has never falter'd, A love that know no other shrine And through all changes livea unalter'd. Had I a thousand hearts to give, Thine all their love and faith should be, Had I a thousand years to live I1d gladly spend them all with thee. There's not a Joy in all the world Like that of love beyond deceiving, Though bolt on bolt be at it hurled The heart will triumph?when believing. This day my joy hath sov'reign sway? A joy which but with thee I know, The rapture of a first fond love Which, wedded, makes a heaven below! A TRIP WITH A GUARD. On reading the " Trembles of a Ticket Clerk," I wondered, like him, whether any of the numerous people with whom I am daily brought in contact would care to know anything of my grievances, which, though perhUps not so large as his, are still grievances. I am actingguard on a very large railway, and receive twenty-five shillings per week, which, when my duties are taken into consideration, will not be considered too much. To judge properly of the arduous and wearisome nature of my duties, it will be necessary to accompany me one trip at least, which will give you a very fair idea of a guard's work. I am on middle turn, and am working the ten o'clock express from London to Rollington. After signing on, as it is termed, I visit the train, inspect the ooupling of the carriages, see tne lamps all right, see that the communication cord for passengers is properly adjusted, and last, though not least, that the communication between myself and the driver iB in good condition. I next superintend the packing of passengers' luggage in my van, let passengers into the train, and wait for the signal to start. I am accosted by a very shabbyooking chap, who says : " Guard, I'll give you half a crown to post this letter in Rollington." " I dare not; the Company's very strictand finding me inexorable on the matter, he walks away. I overhear a passenger asking a question of a porter : " Do you know Tooting ?" " No, sir. Yes, there's Tooton near Nottinghammeaning Toton. * jno, no; its somewnere in tne mbnrbs." " Never heard of the suburbs before, sir, never and at this last sally the passenger ceases his inquiries. "Guard," says an elderly gentleman, in a very nervous manner, " does this train go to Camden ?" " No, sir; this train goes to Poleworth without stopping; the next train for Damden." . A gentleman rushes up panting and rat of breath, and says : " Ware?" "Where?" " Ware 1" he reiterates. " Where ?" " Ware!" he shouts at the top of his roice?" W-a-b-e !" "Oh, Ware. Your train is on the eft, bevond the refreshment room," md off he rushes, wondering no doubt it the stupidity of railway officials, rhe five-minutes' bell now begins to ring, and a cry of " Take your seats, slease?going on," warns the passengers hat they must not linger any longer in he bar or in the waiting-rooms ; and hey mostly take their seats, with the sxception of one or two obstinate ones, vho never will take their seats till the rery last minute, and thus frequently lei ay t'ae train. Standing by the van door, I am adlresv?ed by a lady : " O guard, I want ny boxes put far back, please ; I am so : j .v: _i 1.1 i .UttlU ruuuiu^ OUUU1U UC tuiunu upvjii them if they were in the front." " Very good, ma'am ; I'll put them behind and just as I have finished *he rushes up out of breath, and says: " Oh, my husband has not arrived ; I shall have to have them outand acjordingly they are got out with infinite lifficnlty, in consequence Of their being behind everything else. A young gentleman asks me which is the carriage for Lilly, and I am just opening the door for him, when two men touch him on the shoulder, and jne says, "Your nane'a Johnston, I believe ?" " Yes," he replies, looking round. " Well, I want you." " You haven't been long about it." "No, we never are," said the detec- i tive, quietly, and marches him away. The signal is now given to start and is instantly countermanded by the station master, who, accompanied by the lady, wants her boxes put in again, as ber husband has jr nt arrived; and I put ber and her husband into a carriage, ind leave her with her liepd out of the window, adjuring me to put those box?s far behind; and after a delay of quite i minute and a half, we start, leaving in the platform a testy old gentleman, | who had got out of his carriage to enjoy the minute's delay, and walked a little too far. And now that wo were ince started, there is plenty to do ; the passengers' luggage to sort, the parcels to sort and check, letters to sort, and to teep a sharp lockout. So the train joes on, rushing, screeching, grating, , till it steams into Poleworth Station, wheie ten minutes are allowed for refreshments, and for the engine to take water. The first person I meet on the | platform is, to my great surprise, the elderly gentleman who wanted to go to Damden. " This is a fine thing, sir, to be over- i tarried in this manner." # " It's entirely your own fault; I told jrou the train didn't stop; you re about ' forty miles away from CamdrP ." "Well, I know that; I thought there i were two trains, it's so oonfoundedly i ong. What aiu I to do ?" < "See the station master, by all ] means." "Guard," says a lady at a carriage, window, "can you got a little milk for my little dog ' I manage to get it, take it to her, and i receive a shilling for my trouble, aa ake teams it. " 0 guard, will you see that this little boy is put down at Bollington ?" " Well, I'll see, miss. I ye got plenty 1 to do without looking after youngsters, t Put him in, however; I'll see him all right." t The bell again warns passengers that r the train is about to proceed; and after a slight delay, caused by a gentleman J who had forgotten which carriage he was in, and who has to search each car* ' riage separately, we start again. While half-way between Polelrorth and Nor- ^ rington, I see the child that was given 6 into my charge, with his head as far out a of the window as he can reach, and the r train running between forty and fortyfive miles an hour. My heart is in my F mouth; in vain do I try to attract his 8 attention, but I cannot bear to look at I him. At last, I see him draw his head c in very quickly, and guess the cause?a D speck has flown into his eye?a contin- 8 gency for whjph I have been long hoping. I feel more relieved than you can well imagine, and inwardly vow * never to aooept the charge of any more 8 children. ^ 'Ibe next stoppage ie Sixburyiunc- ji tion; and after going out and scolding ? the child, who has, I find, rubbed hife j! eye into a state of inflammation, I am called to a carriage-window, and asked do I change here for Didlewell ? " You've got into the wrong -train, 8 ma'am; you should have changed at Polewortn." " " O dear 1 what shall I do ? They f put me in at London." (By the way, ' whenever passengers are overcarried, h they always say they were put in.) tl " You'll have to wait five hours, and go on to Poleworth by the up-maiL The a ladies' waiting room is on the other * platform, you'll find a nice fire there." ti " Guard, guard," says a gentleman, n " I've been waiting these last five minu- f tes," (the train has only been in two), h "Get my luggage out?five'pormanteauB, b two hat-boxes, one carpet-bag, and two 8 bonnet boxes." n "Yes, sir." ? "Can't you find my brown port- j< manteau ? Cursed nuisance! I'd rather t< have left anything behind than that b Eortmanteau.?Ob, you've found it, ? ave you ? Now, where's the other hat- ta box ? Haven't you got it ? Dear, dear!' 81 I might as well come without my head & as without that box. I never aid see 81 anything like it; unless one looks to k everything one's self, there's nothing 81 right. I'll report this matter ; a set of <1 lazy, good-for-nothing rascals! Why, I saw it labelled myself." (But just tl here I interrupt him, by producing si the hat-box from under the seat where he had been sitting.) 11 God bless me ! i* under the seat, was it? Ah, so it was. gi I put it there myself, for fear it should w get smashed among the other heavy ei luggage.As the road between Sixbury j onction lc and Veltage is very straight and level, le I take advantage of it and begin to li make up my journal, as it is called. It n< is a record of the time I arrive at and ti depart from stations, the number of g< vehicles on the train, and any out-of- hi the-way occurrences?in fact, answering ai the same purpose to the train that a m log-book does to a ship. We arrive at h' Veltage in due oourse, and are delayed, ai waiting for the Scotch mail train pas- pi sengers. While engaged in my van, a in porter comes and asks me for " the P? British Columbia's box," and a wag in who is near wants to know whether this tli train brought it, or did it come special, et " I haven't got such a thing,"! say. to "O yes, you have ; it's a large gre? n se box ;"*and after ferreting out the large b< green box, I find it belongs to the gi ishop of Columbia, who has been b< traveling in the train. w.' " Guard," says a lady, " I wish you'd request these young men to leave off ki smoking." at " I can't, ma'am ; there're in a smoking compartment.*" ot " Well, I can't see it written up. Why don't they write it up large ?"' a* "It is written up outside the door." th " No, it isn't, for I looked myself o? but on her getting out, T show her her ve mistake, and instead of apologizing, L' she merely sayB: " Well, they shouldn't pi put me in." m On returning to the break, I find a th large retriever dog that had been put d< in at Sixbury busily engaged in di3- iw cussing a basket of pork-pies which he had got from the parcels. They are dc rapidly disappearing, and I do not dare e to go near him, as he shows his teeth 1 c and growls ir a manner simply terrible. I fetch his owner from his carriage, sa and he calls the dog off and laughs at ar the notion of his paying anything for the damage ; and I take his name and so address for further use. Meanwhile, the arrival of the mail again fits us for Btarting. I am asked by a sailor, who ta has been in a state of drunkenness for he two days, and been carried twice up to an within twelve miles of his destination, . and then been taken right away for th want of changing?" Where do I change u| for Helsing ? dr "At Walleton." " I've been trying to find Walleton dn for two or three days, and blest if I wl can." ca I put him in the proper compartment, st: give the signal, and the train again at Bpeeds on its way; and while we are th traveling at a terrible speed, I see the m sailor getting out of his carriage, and dt walking along the footboards. I in- pi stantly communicate to the driver to m stop, get out, and fortunately secure fr him, and with the help of the underguard, put him into an empty milk-van, and lock him in, making sore of him for the rest of the journey. Starting again, SI we arrive in safety at Diddlecome. A wi great many passengers get out here, and ec a perfect storm of inquiries is directed toi to me. . c<! " I want that green box; don't you th see it r ci ' ft No, I don't." th 44Il's right under your nose. Here; th wait ; 111 get it myself." ** But as it is a rule not to allow passen- >H gers in the van, I decline to allow her to en get in and get the box out, and point p* out that it xs blue, and not green, nor th hers at kH. 1 " Guard, I want my box." ^ "I don't see it, sir." 01 "I saw if put in at Kilby myself." . .d< "I don't think yon did, seeing fre don't stop afXilby. hair box/' D8Ter 1,16 g MMM? "It isn't here." " Then it ought to be. It's positivey disgraceful; the management ought o be kicked." Here the porter, who was attending o him, says : " I've put your portoanteau and hat-box on the cab, sir." " The deuoe you have ! Where did rou get my hat-box ?" " You gave it me out of your hand rhen you got out of the train." I next release the sailor, and give him o the station master, Who is going tc rive him into oustody, but lets nim off, ? he is sobered, and expresses greal Tet for the trouble he has given, am here much puzzled by a Germar >assenger, who was put in at Sixbury, nd who says : " 1st diese statione )iddleooroe?" After a good deal oi onsideration, I manage to make out hit [leaning and nod an affirmative. He ;ets out. " Geben sie mir meine baggage." I stare, but recover on hearing the rord baggage; and as I cannot undertand what else he says, I am obliged tc oke every bit of luggage outof my van, nd let him claim what is his, which he 1 . : lU ? ?Ut, k.'.nm UCD UJ bttUpilJg bUO Ol blUiC WlbU UIO UUI Telia, ana saying : "Das ist mein.' )n getting the whole of his property, ie gives me a shilling, and makes me e omplimentary (at least, I,hope so] peech, and then departs. The warning cry of 'Going on, please, nrries the passengers ont of the re reshment rooms complaining dreadally of the scantiness of the time al}wed ; of the coffee to drink ; and ol he soup, which they only get just as the rain iB about to start, and have to leave Imost untasted. Everything being eady, we proceed ; and taking advan&ge of the quietness of the line, I take ly dinner, when, just in the middle oi i, I feel a peculiar jerk, that brings my eart into m.v mouth. I look out of my reak, fully expeoting to see the manled remains of -some man; but am luch relieved to find that it is only a mall calf. It has strayed from an adicent field on to the line, and being x> frightened by the approaching ti ain > PRcape, was cut to pieces. We arrive t Godsend in excellent time, and I noce a commercial traveler get into a econd-olass carriage, and join another Dmmercial, whose face I know well, ad suspecting these two worthies, 1 eep my eye upon them. The train now tops at Dewlin ; here a passenger reuires a foot-warmer ; I tell him they re not kept at small stations, but lat he can nave one at the next large ation. " And I'm to be perished with cold i the meantime, am I ? I call it disraceful. You ought to carry lootarmers in your break ; it's large aough." The train starts, and I resume my ?ok-out, sort the remaining paroels and itten, and presently we steam intoRolngton station. Before the train has sarly stopped, a girl, who sees a relave. is imDrudent enough to attempt to it out, and is thrown down, and cuts it face very badly; I take her nam6 id address, and give it to the stationaster, who will most likely summon sr on behalf of the Company. Here I n again assailed by several people, all ! whom want their luggage at once; i vain do I sav, " I haven't got a dozen lir of hands,' for one or two people imediately demand my name, and ireatea me-with the condign wrath of ich and all of the upper officials of tha ae, with whom they (the passengers) em to be hand-in-glove. The little >y's friends are here to meet him ; I ,ve him up, and am rewarded, and >ld my tongue as to his escapade, for hich he seems grateful. I am called f the ticket collector, who wants to low where the commercial gentlemen arted. " One came from London, nnd the her got in at Godsend." " You'll have to give me your names id addresses, pleaseand on giving em they are released. Their modus wrandi of swindling the Company is ;ry neat; the one who starts from ondon .takes a ticket to the first stopng station, namely Poleworth ; they eet by agreement at Godsend, where e other one gets two tickets, aud thus 'frauds the Company of one fare bereen Poleworth and Godsend. " Guurd, when you go back to Lon>n, if yon go to the booking-office, I ft a shilling there; yon may have it if >n can get it." "Thank you, sir;" and I smile as I y it, for the chances of my getting it e very remote. Guard, how is it my bo* has become crushed ?" " I don't know, ma'am." " It's a great shame yon fellows don't ke more care of passengers' luggage; >wever, I shall put a claim in for it, id so you'll be sure to hear of it again." Having examined my break, to Bee at there is nothing left inside, made ) my journal, and settled with the iver as to time, my trip is finished. And thus the guard works day after iy, and year after year, at work at iich the workingman would scoff, and 11 no work; work, however, which rains the tension of the nerves to the most pitch, knowing, as he does, that e slightest omission or wrong perforance of any one of his multifarious ities may cause an accident that would ace him in the dock on a charge of anslaughter, and render his dismissal Dm the service inevitable in any event. What They Said.?In 1868 Generals lerman, Anger, Terry and Harney, ith other commissioners, were appointl to examino into the canses of Indian ars. Thev presented a report which intained these remarkable words: " If e lands of the white man are taken, vilisation justifies him in resisting ie invader. Civilization does more an this?it brands him as a ooward, id a slave if he submit to the wrong, ere civilization made its oontract and laranteed the rights of the weaker irty. It did not stand by-the guaranty; ie treaty was oroxen, dui doc dj toe .vage. If the savage resists, eivilizaon, with the ten oommandments m ie hand and the sword in the other, smands his immediate extermination' A Poughkeepsie clerk lores the very round a Highland widow walks upon. t is wcrth faOP an South African Diamond Fields. The Detroit Tribune publishes the following extracts from a private letter ; received in that city from the Diamond ' Fields in South Africa : I There is so much sameness with life on the fields that it is almost impossible 1 for one to oontent himself. 1 am still engaged in digging for the little char* | mere, and have moderate success. If half the diamonds I find were perfect in k shape and color, I could return from the fields in a short time. The proportion i of bad stuff and off coldr is about nine, ty-nine in one hundred. I haVe found ) a great many stones within the last four I months, but not one in the lot was peri feet. A few days ago I found one of 30 ) carats, good water, but it was shattered all through, so in reality it is not of much value. Small mixed chips up to s 10 carats bring 7s. per carat. I sold, for a friend, a stone of 23 carats, deep off > color, at 45s. 6d. per carat. Qood octo, hedron white, from 4 to 10 carats, bring ) good prices, say from AO to ?10 ster ling, gold, per carat. Few of these, ' however, are found. A few months ago , I found a beauty, octohedron in shape, i of 8 carats. It had a slight, smoky I tinge. I had it out of the ground only two days when it flew all to bits. The > chips I sold for six shillings per carat. . The loss for me, of course, was great . Still, we have to take our chances. The . cost of working a claim is so much that ' there is no more money in it. Perhaps , there are not ten claims in 1,300 on this . field that are much more than paying , working expenses. Men stick to the ! work with the hope of finding a good, sized diamond which would give them a > lift out of this region ; but these perr feet big stones don't lie about loose. . ' The work is getting to be very tedious. , I am taking oat ground at the depth of L eighty feet. It all has to be broken , with sticks in the handsof Kaffirs. With . sixteen boys I can take oat and sort 8 car-loads a day. . I have many times sorted 100 loads i and not found a chip. At other times I have found ten in a wheel-barrow full of , ground. One, to make it pay, wants to . tind one or two diamonds to each cartload of ground, tliat is, taking them as they come, chips and stones, large and small. The rush, instead of coming to the fields, is turning from them. I can see great changes in the camp every , day. The majority of thp diggers are from Cape Colony or that of Natal. They come with their oxeh, and, of course, can leave any day, while with Europeans or Americans tne case is differe Lit. They don't corao to 1mt? until they have replenished their empty pockets. Very few do it, however. The longer the majority stay the poorer they get. Philosophical Pedestrlanlsm. Walking, says a writer in the June number of the Galaxy, brings out the true character of a man. The devil never yet asked his victims to take a walk with him. You will not be long in finding your companion out All disguir es will fall iway from him. As his pores open his character is laid bare. His deepest ai d most private self will come to the top. It matters little whom you ride with, so he be not a pickpocket; s\t wam mill wnrw 1 ilrolr Hpfflp lUt L/UKU U1 JUU TV iii| ?| wv??*w down closer and firmer in jour reserve, shaken down like a measure of corn bj the jolting, as the journey proceeds. But walking is a more vital copartnership ; the relation is a closer and sympathetic one, and you do not feel like walking ten paces with a stranger without speaking to him. Hence the fastidiousness of the professional walker in choosing or admitting a companion, and hence the truth of a remark of Emerson, that you will generally fare better to take your dog than to invite your neighbor. Your cur-dog iB a true pedestrian, and your neighbor is very likely a small politician. The dog enters thoroughly into the spirit of the enterprise; he is not indifferent or preoccupied; he is constantly sniffing adventure, laps at every spring, looks upon every field and wood as a new world to be explored, is ever on some fresh trail, knows something important will happen a little further on, gazes with the true wonderseeing eyes whatever the spot or whatever the road, finds it good to be there ?in short, is just that happy, delicious, excursive vagabond that touches one at so many points, and whose human prototype in a companion robs miles and leagues of half their fatigue. A New Idea in Building Wiro nAtt.inor fnr nlastfirincr is heinc rapidly introduced to take the place of laths. It takes less labor to place on the walls, is more continuous, and will not burn. Coarse netting, with oneinch mesh, and made of Btrong wire, is found to answer best. For ornamental cornice work it is especially val uable, for it can be bent into any desired form. Secured to iron studding in a brick building, our greatest danger on account of lire would be removed. A still further application of this plan is to make round bags of wire, resembling barrels, and to coat them inside and out with cement. When it hardens they resemble stone barrels. Filled with sand and sunk in rows and masses, they make excellent building material for break-waters. Another extension of the idea has been tried with success in England. It consists is making ironframed buildings, covering them with the wire netting, and soeading concrete on both sides. It is claimed that a house?walls, floors, roofs, doors, partitions and all?lias been built, that is strong, firm, R'jd absolntelj incombustible. VarioQg applications of the nse of wire noting and plaster or cement, readily suggest themselves, and the matter ig worthy of the attention of me. charges and builders. Among business men complaints are .now that the new postal cards are a disgrace to the Department in appearance, that they are made of the very poorest material, badly printed and designed, and will be very easily counterfeited Facto and Fancies. A person who iells you of the faults of others intends to tell others of your faults. Gen. Barry has prohibited the sale of spirituous and malt liquors at Fortress Monroe. A Vimrinta ionrnal wires notice that if any of its patrons fail to get the paper they should call at the office and subscribe. This journal "means busift P688? The Congress appointed the time and plaoe of the next meeting of the American Agricultural Congress at Atlanta on the second Wednesday in May next year. A resolution advocating the application of the eight-hour system to farm labor was voted down after much discussion in the U. S. National Agricultural Convention. There is said to be a small vale lying between the Roane and Blue Bidge mountains, in Tennessee, where the bones of dead animals are so thick that they can be walked on for over a mile. An awkward man, attempting to carve a goose, dropped it on the floor. "There, now," exclaimed his wife, "we've lost our dinner." Oh, no, my dear," answered he, "it's safe?I have my foot on it." Tyndoll illustrates the value of a single potato by supposing that every potato in the world but one was destroyed, that one would contain in itself the possibility of again stocking the world with an invaluable article of food. About half a century ago, the survivor in a fatal duel in England, though an officer of high rank, was convicted and hanged for murder. Thereupon duelling became unpopular in England as a means of settling personal difficulties. A prominent citizen of Terre Haute, Ind., who received a challenge from a hot-headed young Southerner temporarily residing there, shortly after met him in the street, and taking him by the coat-oollas, shook him into decency and common sense. Mr. Fred B. Perkins, in his olever story of "Scrope," published in Old And New, tells a story of a lawyer who never wrote his name in his law bo?ks, and whenever he found a law book in anv of his friehds' offices with no name in it,he always carried it off as his own. Our farmers and country gentlemen do not seem to know it, but there is no easier way to make mouey than by stocking their ponds with fish. The cost is nothing, the yield large. One may feed his own family and the poo? of the neighborhood all the yoor round, and not feel the expense. A candidate in Virginia makes the following annoucement: Notice?I Nonce my Self A candidate for the legislator for the Nex sission to Repezent the Agucultary and the mnnucultray intress of the farmers intress of this County and the heavy thaxiation that is on the people of this county, of sevel caiesis. Henry i Brooks. May the 20 1873." The Missouri editors at their late convention formally resolved that a man has the same right to walk into a grocery store and order a barrel of sugar or a sock of coffee, or into a law office and demand a legal opinion from its occupant, or into an undertaker's and request a coffin, without expecting to pay for their respective wares or services, as into a newspaper offioe and demand the use of its brains and muscle and type, without a thought of recompense. It often becomes desirable to insert screws in plaster walls, without attaching them to any woodwork, but when we turn them in the plaster they give way, and our effort is vain. And yet a mw he inserted in plaster so as to hold light pictures, etc., very firmly. The best plan is to enlarge the hole to abont twice the diameter of the screw, fill it with plaster of paris, snch as is used for fastening the tops of lamps, etc., and bed the screw in the soft plaster. When the plaster has set, the screw will be held very strongly. A Dnel Caused by a Tallow Candle. A most sanguinary meeting took place during the war, near Richmond, Va. The parties to the affair were members of a Mississippi regiment. One of them was a lieutenant, and the other had held the same grade of office, but had resigned to become sutler for the regiment. The lieutenant had credit with the sutler, and had purchased sundry articles which had been charged against him. When settling time came around a dispute arose botwcen the two concerning a tallow candle which was charged in the bill. They both stubbornly maintained the positions they had taken with regard to this trifling matter, and finally decided to resort to the " code" for a final settlement of the disagreement. The weapons used were Mississippi rifles, aud one who was present says he saw both men stretched upon the ground, dead, the aim of each havinir been nnerrinsr and fatal. Life has been not unaptly likened to a horning candle. Jt is snuffed out with aa little ceremony, sometimes. Fruit in Tin Cant. The Boston Journal of Chemittry says : The impression prevails among those who use freely fruits which are put up in tin cans, that they are injured thereby, and this impression is, in many cases, correct We have long contended that all preserved fruits and vegetables should be stored in glass, and that no metal of any kind should be brought in contact with them. All fruits oontain more or less of vegetable acids, and others that are highly corrosive, are often formed by fermentation, and the metallic vessels are considerably acted upon. Tin cans are IiaIiI Vtv tnldar. an allov into which lead enters largely. .This metal is easily corroded by vegetable acids, . ard poisonous salts are formed. Undoubtedly, many persons are greatly injured by eating tomatoes peaohto, etc., which have been placed in tin cans, and we advise all oar friends who oomtemplate putting up fruits the coming summer, to use onjy glass jars lor the par1